These apprentice quotes will inspire you. Apprentice, a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging apprentice quotes, apprentice sayings, and apprentice proverbs.
Best Apprentice Quotes
- “Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.” ~ Jacques Necker
- “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit.” ~ Paul Brandt
- “May the Force be with you.” ~ George Lucas
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“Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.” ~ George Lucas
- “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” ~ George Lucas
- “I’m like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.” ~ Ricky Martin
- “There are two types of people in the world, and I’m one of them.” ~ Aaron Allston
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“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
- “Apprentice is the beginner – the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.” ~ Josef Albers
- “You’re an Apprentice! You’re not ready to think!” Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.” ~ John Flanagan
- “This is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?” ~ Abraham Verghese
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“Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.” ~ Erin Hunter
- “I’ll think of something,” he temporized, and Horace nodded wisely, satisfied that Halt would indeed think of something. In Horace’s world, that was what Rangers did best, and the best thing a warrior apprentice could do was let the Ranger get on with thinking while a warrior took care of walloping anyone who needed to be walloped along the way. He settled back in the saddle, contented with his lot in life.” ~ John Flanagan
- “B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. “Me first?” Of course. You’re the apprentice, so you always go first into the unknown. If anyone’s going to be eaten by a grue, it should be you.” Tough job. But at least the hours are terrible.” ~ Tim Pratt
- “‘Celebrity Apprentice’ has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I’ve ever seen.” ~ Penn Jillette
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“I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on ‘Bonfire Of The Vanities.’ I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma’s apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.” ~ Douglas Rushkoff
- “Jessica Simpson is the youth ambassador for Operation Smile, and an episode of The Apprentice featured a team managing a charity concert she put on. Donald Trump came on stage and pledged a donation.” ~ Roma Downey
- “Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” ~ William Faulkner
- “Your brother kills you.” Fett hopped tpo his feet as lightly as any unarmoured jedi apprentice, the n added,” Some things are worsse thean death. I know that better than anyone, except maybe Sintas-and Han Solo. Send your father my sympathies.” ~ Troy Denning
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“It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.” ~ Barbara Tuchman’
- “One day you are an apprentice, and everybody’s pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.” ~ Margaret Halsey
- “Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don’t feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.” ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
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“The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.” ~ Steven Pressfield
- “The apprentice realist uses line as a net to capture his prey, an imitation of reality. But soon he becomes enchanted with line as a thing. It becomes a servant of his pleasure.” ~ Rene Huyghe
- “My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.” ~ Philipp Meyer
- “The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.” ~ Trudi Canavan
- “”Nationwide” featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.” ~ Clive James
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“How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool?” ~ Robin Hobb
- “I’d bet a month of dawn patrols those apprentices had something to do with it,” Birchfall meowed. “Why else would they disappear back to ShadowClan without their mother?” Dustpelt let out a snort of amusement. “I can just picture those three holding Blackstar down until he agreed.” ~ Erin Hunter
- “Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching’s great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.” ~ Parker J. Palmer , Mentor and apprentice quotes
- “Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.” ~ Edward McKendree Bounds
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“As Seth’s apprentice, I’ve learned wisdom of which you’ve never dreamed.” ~ Janet Morris
- “A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, “Do you know your trade?” “Yes, sir!” the young man replied proudly. “Have you ever made a mistake?” the older man inquired. “No, sir!” the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. “Then there’s no way I’m going to hire you,” said the master carpenter, “because when you make one, you won’t know how to fix it.” ~ Fred Rogers
- “Crowley shook his head. “I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority.” “Oh, he teaches us to respect authority,” Gilan said innocently. “He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.” ~ John Flanagan
- “My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―” ~ Raymond E. Feist
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“But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.” ~ Kevin Hearne
- “Two Windclan apprentices were wandering toward them. Fireheart twitched his ears to warn his friends they had an audience. “Oh, yes,” meowed Ravenpaw, raising his voice. “We loners eat Clan apprentices whenever we can catch one.” ~ Erin Hunter
- “Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” Hazel frowned. “What is a chicken nugget?” “Oh, man…” Leo shook his head in amazement. “That’s right. You’ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—” “Doesn’t matter,” Annabeth interrupted.” ~ Rick Riordan
- “Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you’re anxious about Horace.” WIll was a little puzzled by Halt’s words. “No more anxious than the rest of us, surely,” he said. Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen’s. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi’s slow nod of understanding. ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace” ~ John Flanagan
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“There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.” There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them back— poorly. “Hey, peanut gallery,” I said. “This isn’t as easy as I’m making it look.” “You’re doing fine,” Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. “Come on, Toot,” I said, and walked over to Hook.” ~ Jim Butcher
- “The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.” ~ Dallas Willard
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“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well — a trick I had learned from my father.” ~ Maria V. Snyder
- “All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.” ~ Donald Trump
- “Another guy barked orders to a small army of brooms, mops, and buckets that were scuttling around, cleaning up the city. “Like that cartoon,” Sadie said. “Where Mickey Mouse tries to do magic and the brooms keep splitting and toting water.” “‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,'” Zia said. “You do know that was based on an Egyptian story, don’t you?” ~ Rick Riordan
- “Fire will save the Clan. You never understood, did you? Not even when I gave you your apprentice name, Firepaw. And I doubted it myself, when fire raged through our camp. Yet I see the truth now. Fireheart, you are the fire who will save ThunderClan. You will be a great leader. One of the greatest the forest has ever known. You will have the warmth of fire to protect your Clan and the fierceness of fire to defend it. You will be Firestar, the light of ThunderClan.” ~ Erin Hunter
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“Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.” ~ Susan Kay
- “Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They’re bad enough when they’re learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg.268]” ~ John Flanagan
- “Fireheart tensed, waiting for whatever had hunted down these apprentices to emerge from the trees and attack, but nothing stirred. Feeling as if his legs hardly belonged to him, he sprang down and stumbled across to Swiftpaw. The apprentice lay on his side, his legs splayed out. His black-and-white fur was torn, and his body was covered with dreadful wounds, ripped by teeth far bigger than any cat’s. His jaws still snarled and his eyes glared. He was dead, and Fireheart could see that he had died fighting.” ~ Erin Hunter
- “I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren’t ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?” ~ Michael Gungor
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“The modern technologist is less ‘sorcerer’ and more ‘sorcerer’s apprentice’.” ~ Barry Commoner
- “The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan , Master to apprentice quotes
- “For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person. I think of myself more as a creative-type person, but it’s quite nice to be challenged physically and mentally.” ~ Boy George
- “No one can tell you the rules of ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.” ~ Penn Jillette
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“Trump said that he hoped bin Laden suffered a lot. It looks like he got his wish, because the CIA said bin Laden spent his last hour watching ‘Celebrity Apprentice.'” ~ Conan O’Brien
- “I was so fortunate to get the opportunity to be a writers’ apprentice on A Different World. It was my favorite show. So to go from watching Dwayne and Whitley to writing for Dwayne and Whitley was incredible.” ~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
- “No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I’m just laughing at life.” “Why?” he asked, opening both his eyes. “Because sometimes it’s either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?” ~ P. C. Cast
- “I don’t pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.” ~ Dan Rather
- “It’s not going to be sitting there producing The Apprentice. I can assure you of that. It’s something that [Donald Trump] owns. It’s a title he owns, but I’m telling you he’s going to be 100 percent focused in the White House.” ~ Reince Priebus
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“[Donald Trump] not going to be sitting in studio acting as the executive producer of The Apprentice. I think that’s Mark Burnett and that’s the way it’s going to be.” ~ Reince Priebus
- “We learned that President-elect [Donald] Trump intends to keep his executive producer title on Celebrity Apprentice. We know he’s going to come out later this week and talk about how he’s going to handle the overall conflicts of interests, perhaps, with his businesses in the White House.” ~ George Stephanopoulos
- “Newt Gingrich said that this executive producer is weird and it raises – does raise questions about possible conflicts. The FCC regulates NBC corporations can try to curry favor with the president by placing their products on the show [Celebrity Apprentice].” ~ George Stephanopoulos
